Best Buy gets into video on-demand with CinemaNow

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Back in November of last year, we reported that Best Buy had teamed up with Sonic Solutions to offer on-demand video content to web-connected televisions, portable media players, PCs, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and mobile phones. Now it seems the partnership between Sonic and Best Buy is ready to bear fruit with the launch of the CinemaNow Digital Entertainment Platform.

The platform will allow consumers access to new release movies and television shows initially through connected Blu-ray disc players and HDTVs in addition to PCs via the CinemaNow website. Access through other devices, including those under Best Buy’s Insignia brand, is expected to be available later in the year along with an updated interface which will include expanded playback features. Under the partnership, Best Buy will own the CinemaNow trademark and will use it to market the service.

Tying electronic devices to online services has been a winning combination for companies like Apple and it is a model retailers like Walmart and Best Buy are all too happy to copy. The move to offer a video on-demand service was a logical one for Best Buy who already offers an online music download store via its purchase of Napster back in 2008.

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